“This is one of my many attempts to recreate what you are, as you can see he is a clear failure, but he does serve for other purposes. He has proven to be quite efficient in killing,” Xavier told her with icy calmness. “I will have your blood Lily one way or the other. It’s a shame you chose this way,” he told her then commanded to the monster before her to kill her. The creature turned to face her and she gasped in horror taking a step back.
Its face was half human and half monster. One side was covered with fur, ear like a wolf, and his eye was golden while the other was human but with an eye that glowed red. His mouth was the most grotesque of all; it was a twisted lumpy mix between a canine snout and lips. She took another step back as he advanced towards her with an angry snarl. “You don’t have to do this,” Lily stated keeping her hands up.
“You don’t have to do what he says, he can’t control you,” she continued to try and reason with the deformation before her, ignoring Xavier’s laughter. The creature charged her raising his clawed hand to strike her. Lily ducked and rolled out of his way just in time. Just as she turned to face the creature he was almost on her. This time, she wasn’t fast enough and he crashed into her. Lily groaned feeling like she had been hit with a semi-truck.
With his normal hand, he pinned her to the ground while the clawed he raised to bring it down on her. “Now we need to work together guys,” she whispered barely audible closing her eyes and trying to allow both the beast and the vampire to come closer to the surface at the same time without ending up in the monstrous form before her. Lily blocked the clawed fist coming at her while inside she fought for control.
She felt as if her body was trying to rip itself apart. She growled trying to force her will over the two monsters inside her while keeping the third one on top of her from ripping out her throat. Slowly she pulled the beasts under control. She threw the deformed creature off of her and she stood, feeling the pure power flowing through her veins. She could feel the brutal strength of the beast while she felt the lethal speed and deadly accuracy of the vampire.
Lily charged the creature moving faster than she had ever moved before. Before he had a chance to react she had landed several solid punches. Taking out her knife she dodged his attempts to strike her, they appeared to be much slower than they were before making them easier to avoid now. One more punch to the creature’s chest and he fell to his knees panting and she held the blade to his throat but stopped before sinking into his skin.
She was hesitant to kill him, he was a person before this and it wasn’t his fault he was attacking her, she still had hope for a cure. “Do it! Kill me,” he spoke with a raspy voice. She flinched startled that he could speak. The creature gave her a pleading look. “Please… kill me,” he begged. With a nod and a quiet apology she pulled the knife away from his throat and plunged it into his chest.
He gave her a grateful look before he slowly fell to the ground limp. Lily removed the knife and drove one the silver stakes into his chest to make sure he would stay down then turned her attention to the observing Xavier. “Now it’s your turn,” Lily snarled at him, her voice drastically changed to a more animalistic sounding tone. The truth was she felt more animal than a person at the moment.
Satisfaction filled her when she noticed the two vampires and Xavier’s look of uncertain confusion. “What is that Xavier,” One of the vampires demanded.
“Come down here and find out,” she snapped but the vampire only gave Xavier his attention and that made her grow angrier.
“This is most extraordinary,” Xavier cheered. “This is our success, Vincent! Look at her, Lily’s physical appearance has changed! She’s e taller, broader, more muscular, paler, and oh my I must have to investigate further,” Xavier explained sounding excited and Lily growled furiously.
The vampire, Vincent, started to answer, but Lily interrupted him. “You’re not investigating anything Xavier! Tonight you die,” Lily shouted at him and he gave her a bored expression that made her blood boil even more.
“You can’t get to me from there Lily,” Xavier told her with a teasing tone.
“That’s what you think,” she retorted rabidly. Her nails started to grow longer and darker until they were black claws. Lily ran up the wall and began to easily sink her claws into the concrete. She started to climb up the wall until she reached the observation window. The two vampires were nowhere to be seen now, but she only cared about Xavier! A smile crossed her face as she saw fear on his face as she slammed a fist into the window shattering it.
She crawled into the room and stood before the doctor removing glass that had embedded in her fist, arms, and even in her face. Lily tossed the pieces towards Xavier’s feet feeling the cuts heal instantly. Without a word, he turned running out of the room shutting the heavy metal door behind him. A predatory smile stole across her lips as she slowly walked towards the door sinking her claws into and tearing into the metal. She peeled it as easily as she would an orange, the thrill of the hunt fill her.
Behind the door was another mass of hallways but the stench of Xavier’s fear fill scent was extremely easy to follow. Her claws shrunk back into her normal fingernails as ran through the hall to her left but quickly changing direction once more. Lily slid to a stop when she found him and finally understood why she had to do this alone.
Xavier held a girl at the point of a syringe that was filled with a bright blue liquid. Lily took out a gun as she walked towards them and pointed it at Xavier. Nick would have done anything to keep his daughter safe, and James couldn’t hurt a child or let her do it. “Stay back Lily or I will inject Wendy. We both know you don’t want that,” he threatened. Lily stopped but didn’t lower the gun. “Now how about we make a deal,” he started and Lily scoffed at him.
“I will do a trade, her for you. Lay down on the examining table, I strap you in and let her go,” he explained and she smiled at him coldly.
“No,” she told him and he looked surprised and started to insist that he would be good to his word. “I said no Xavier, tonight you die. This gun is loaded with silver bullets. I am going to fill you with so much silver they will make silverware out of your ass when I am done. Now you can be a good guy, let the girl go so I don’t have to take her down with you because quite honestly I am not a very good shot,” Lily explained, in turn, ignoring the girl’s anguished sob.
“Nice try Lily, but you’d never hurt her,” he replied with smug arrogance.
“Yeah, normally you’d be right but not this time. I have to take you down here and now, I would hurt one girl to keep you from hurting hundreds, thousands, and maybe even millions of people,” she replied in turn with cold seriousness in her voice. Xavier’s smugness disappeared and she could see doubt in his eyes. “I am going to count to three Xavier and I will start to shoot,” Lily finished. The girl cried out and pleaded with him to let her go, but his grip only tightened.
Lily swore and hoped to hell Nick would forgive her for this. She took a deep breath, remembering everything Jessie told her about shooting. “One,” she shouted and Xavier’s grip tightened even more. “Two,” she shouted, once more begging silently that he would let the damn girl go, she didn’t need to get hurt. Xavier looked side to side for something to help him against her but found nothing. “Three,” she finished and Xavier gripped the girl so hard his knuckles were white. “You are a selfish bastard,” Lily snapped and pressed the trigger.
The girl screamed and the arm that held the syringe jerked violently as the bullet sunk into his shoulder, thankfully where she had been aiming for. “Let her go,” Lily demanded lowering the gun aiming for his ankle and firing once more. Hitting his knee, he leaned against the girl of support refusing to let her go as a shield. He tried to pull her against him, but the teen grabbed his knee and dug her fingers into the wound.
“Let me go you loser,” the teen screamed. He cried out as his face contorted with pain with no other choice but to loosen his grip on her. The girl ran away from him and Lily shot him a few more times resisting the urge to empty the firearm on him. The girl ran up wrapping her slender arms around Lily in a strong hug. “Thank you, Miss, thank you so much,” the girl sobbed. Part of Lily wanted to throw the girl away from her and focus only on Xavier but what was left of her humanity reminded her of that the girl was more important at the moment.
“Are you Wendy, Nick’s daughter,” she asked gruffly.
The girl bopped her brunette head wiping her watery eyes looking from her to Xavier. “Is he dead?” she asked.
“No these are normal bullets,” Lily told her. Silver was too quick, too dignified for him though she didn’t tell that to the rattled teen. “You’re father has been worried about you. Wait for me outside and when I am finished with Xavier, I’ll take you to him,” Lily told her focusing on the withering man before them.